I know that some find the flush counts that I post here hard to believe, but as much as I can remember they are accurate. And, as if to prove that we don’t have a grouse under every bush, we had a pretty tough day. We hunted six dogs and Rigby got the short end […]
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Saturday it was just Tony, Carnoski, and I hunting and we had 5 dogs on the truck — Little Thudd, Bee, LJ, Trash, and Trip. This time of year we often find grouse bunched up in spots that have food and we walked walked into one spot where there were 8 spread out over a […]
Henry’s Woodcock
Henry and Dave McCarthy after a hunt with Jack. Dave McCarthy from Maine has been thinking about getting a Wild Apple puppy and asked if he and his 11 year old son Henry could come over and see the dogs run. We started out with Trip on the Home Cover and she pointed some grouse […]
Grouse Dogs
A few days ago I wrote a post “Making Grouse Dogs” in which I stated that three factors go into making a grouse dog. They are genetics, shoe leather, and grouse. The shoe leather and the grouse are fairly obvious — you have to spend untold hours in the woods with a dog for it […]